10-letter words containing s, y
- bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
- biophysics — the physics of biological processes and the application of methods used in physics to biology
- biopsychic — of, relating to, or comprising psychological and biological phenomena.
- biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
- bird's-eye — seen or photographed from high above
- blast away — If a gun, or a person firing a gun, blasts away, the gun is fired continuously for a period of time.
- blastocyst — the blastula of mammals: a sphere of cells (trophoblast) enclosing an inner mass of cells and a fluid-filled cavity (blastocoel)
- blimpishly — in a blimpish manner
- blindstory — a windowless story
- blissfully — full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss.
- bloomsbury — a district of central London in the borough of Camden: contains the British Museum, part of the University of London, and many publishers' offices
- blue daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
- bluest eye — a novel (1970) by Toni Morrison.
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- bobbysocks — ankle-length socks worn by teenage girls, esp in the US in the 1940s
- bobbysoxer — an adolescent girl wearing bobbysocks, esp in the 1940s
- body louse — See under louse (def 1).
- body press — a hold in which a wrestler places full body weight on a supine opponent in trying to pin the opponent's shoulders to the mat.
- body scrub — a product designed to exfoliate the skin
- body shirt — a close-fitting shirt or blouse having a shape and seams that follow the contours of the body.
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- bonus baby — an athlete who is paid a substantial bonus to sign his or her first professional contract.
- boss cocky — a boss or person in power
- bossyboots — a bossy or domineering person
- boston ivy — a climbing vine (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) of the grape family, native to Japan and China, having shield-shaped leaves and purple berries: often grown to cover walls
- boy scouts — the worldwide movement founded by Lord Baden-Powell in 1908, now called the Scout Association in the UK and the Boys Scouts of America in the USA, which pursues a programme of activities for boys with the aim of developing character and responsibility
- brachyaxis — the shorter lateral axis of a monoclinic, orthorhombic, or triclinic crystal
- bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
- brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
- brown eyes — eyes with brown irises
- bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
- buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
- bull's-eye — The bull's-eye is the small circular area at the centre of a target.
- bush poppy — tree poppy.
- bustlingly — in a bustling manner
- by degrees — If something happens by degrees, it happens slowly and gradually.
- by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
- by oneself — be oneself, to be in one's normal state of mind or physical condition. to be unaffected and sincere: One makes more friends by being oneself than by putting on airs.
- by request — in accordance with someone's desire
- by-numbers — done in an uninspired, simplistic, or formulaic way
- by-passers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- byssinosis — a lung disease caused by prolonged inhalation of fibre dust in textile factories
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cad system — A CAD system is a computer system for designing parts or products before they are manufactured.
- caddis fly — any of an order (Trichoptera) of small, mothlike insects with a soft body, long antennae and legs, and two pairs of hairy, membranous wings
- caecostomy — (surgery) An operation involving bringing the caecum through the abdominal wall, most often by a tube, and opening it for drainage or decompression, usually to treat an obstruction of the colon.
- calotypist — a person who produces photographs using the calotype process
- camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.